TEMPE – Stepping into the evening darkness from their silver Kia, a mother and her 20-something daughter walked toward the line of orange and clear bins filled with packets of fresh hypodermic ...

A brush fire that began in California on Saturday afternoon and forced some evacuations moved into Mohave County, scorching a total of more than 200 acres. The San Bernardino County Fire Department ...

In the midst of the continuing overdose epidemic, the Arizona Department of Health Services is showing its ignorance. Shot in the Dark, Phoenix's largest needle exchange, may close because it doesn't ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A new wildfire has spread across state lines in Arizona and California. The Needles Fire has burned 203 acres along both sides of the Colorado River. It started in California and ...

The following column is the opinion and analysis of the writer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate 40,000 new cases of HIV every year, and a major source of these cases is needle ...

Arizona appears poised to allow needle exchange programs for illicit drug users to be operated legally in the state for the first time. The Senate voted 22-8 Thursday to approve the measure by ...

Update, 2/22: House Bill 2389, which would legalize needle exchanges, has been approved by the Arizona House of Representatives with a unanimous vote. It now heads to the Senate. Original story ...

A bill to decriminalize needle-exchange programs is advancing in the Arizona House of Representatives. Supporters call it an early, yet significant, legislative victory for advocates and experts who ...

A town of 5,200 just inside the California border along Route 66 now boasts a scorching new record — the hottest monthly average temperature in the country. Needles averaged 103.2 degrees in July, ...

With unanimous, bipartisan support — and surprisingly little floor debate — a bill that would legalize needle-exchange programs passed out of the Arizona House of Representatives on Thursday.

NEEDLES, CALIF. — Depending on their mood and whom you talk to, people in this parched railroad town clinging to the eastern edge of California call it the poor stepchild, the redheaded stepchild, the ...